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New comment by oopsallmagic in "The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets"

oopsallmagic — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:14:10 +0000

Is that the fault of the system, or the fault of the tourists for visiting a new place and not reading up on local customs?

New comment by oopsallmagic in "Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valley backs off"

oopsallmagic — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:12:35 +0000

Or even the fifth-grade science project you can do. Fill a soda bottle with air, a soda bottle with CO2, put them in the sun, then measure their internal temperature. You can do it with your kids in an afternoon.

New comment by oopsallmagic in "Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM"

oopsallmagic — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:02:55 +0000

Not exactly. Harfbuzz, the font shaping library, has an optional feature to use WASM for shaping. Normal font hinting is much more restricted, precisely because Turing-complete fonts are a horrible idea.

New comment by oopsallmagic in "Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM"

oopsallmagic — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:01:53 +0000

The engine isn't built with it by default, so this is a non-issue.

New comment by oopsallmagic in "Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM"

oopsallmagic — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:57 +0000

It's technically not arbitrary. There is a stack, of sorts, but IIRC it has a depth of six or so, by default. You can do cool stuff with font shaping, but you can't easily execute arbitrary code.

New comment by oopsallmagic in "Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM"

oopsallmagic — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 23:59:13 +0000

No, because Unicode doesn't concern itself with rendering, it's just for codepoints.

New comment by oopsallmagic in "Traffic engineers build roads relying on outdated research, faulty data"

oopsallmagic — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 21:24:03 +0000

Except road funding, huge chunks of which come from the federal government (because, big surprise, cities and states can't afford thousands of miles of stroads and highways without invoking a government that can print its own reserve currency).

New comment by oopsallmagic in "Traffic engineers build roads relying on outdated research, faulty data"

oopsallmagic — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 21:22:52 +0000

To be fair, I used to live like two or three miles from school, and we would've had to pay for the bus because I was "too close". So mom dropped me off at like 6:00 AM because we were poor as shit. If we cared about education at all, we wouldn't make families pay for something that I'm pretty sure used to just be free.

New comment by oopsallmagic in "Traffic engineers build roads relying on outdated research, faulty data"

oopsallmagic — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 21:20:35 +0000

You can fit like 50 people on a bus, and maybe 10 in the equivalent space taken up by two SUVs. Seriously, how is this a question?

New comment by oopsallmagic in "Traffic engineers build roads relying on outdated research, faulty data"

oopsallmagic — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 21:15:22 +0000

The entirety of the Netherlands used to look like the US in the '60s and '70s, albeit not at Super Sized(TM) scale. Look up their urban design in 2024, it's quite pleasant and human-friendly.

New comment by oopsallmagic in "Traffic engineers build roads relying on outdated research, faulty data"

oopsallmagic — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 21:07:04 +0000

Are these the same bike lanes that start and stop randomly and are often just the shoulder of a 45-mi/h road with a bike, and implied middle finger, painted on?

New comment by oopsallmagic in "Traffic noise hurts children's brains"

oopsallmagic — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 20:51:18 +0000

Adult brains, too. I appreciate the study, but this is one of those "yes, obviously" situations for anyone who has ever been outside amongst cars.

New comment by oopsallmagic in "I kind of like rebasing"

oopsallmagic — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:16:00 +0000

People need to get comfortable with git being a DAG, and not the degenerate case of just a straight line. Merge commits aren't scary, folks.

New comment by oopsallmagic in "I kind of like rebasing"

oopsallmagic — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:14:51 +0000

Then why are you even using a VCS?

New comment by oopsallmagic in "Ruby: A great language for shell scripts"

oopsallmagic — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:10:13 +0000

How is it supposed to know how you want your errors handled by default? Handling errors is the programmer's job.

New comment by oopsallmagic in "Ruby: A great language for shell scripts"

oopsallmagic — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:07:56 +0000

Can't you just install it?

New comment by oopsallmagic in "Ruby: A great language for shell scripts"

oopsallmagic — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:03:06 +0000

It's not. This is a non-issue. Every web shop is writing bash to twiddle a build script on servers they also manage, which includes the ability to install any package they want.

New comment by oopsallmagic in "Ruby: A great language for shell scripts"

oopsallmagic — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:02:06 +0000

And of course, it is impossible to install additional interpreters on the computer.

New comment by oopsallmagic in "Ruby: A great language for shell scripts"

oopsallmagic — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:01:21 +0000

Not once have I worked anywhere where the people writing shell scripts didn't also control all of the boxen those scripts ran on.

New comment by oopsallmagic in "TinyLetter shut down by Mailchimp, so I built the letterdrop"

oopsallmagic — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 08:52:03 +0000

That depends on your valuation.